Fraud-preventive device for check-operated machines.



No. 860,346. PATENTB'D JULY 16, 1907. E. A. BEAUMONT, JR. 8: G. W.GARMON.

FRAUD PREVENTIVE DEVICE FOR GHBGK OPERATED MACHINES.

APPLIOATION FILED BEPTJB, 1906. RENEWED JAN. 9, 1907.

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EDWARD A. BEAUMONT, J ft, AND GEORGE W. GARMON, OF PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA.

FRAUD-PREVENTIVE DEVICE FOR CHECK-OPERATED MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 16, 1907.

Original application filed June '14, 1905, Serial No. 265,140. Dividedand this application filed September 29, 1905. Serial No. 280,562.Renewed January 9, 1907. Serial No. 351,568.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD A. BEAUMONT, In, and GEORGE W. GARMON,citizens of the United States, and residents of the city and county ofPhiladelphia, State of Pennsylvania have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Fraud-Preventive Devices for Cheek-Operated Machines, ofwhich the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in fraud prevention devices forcheck controlled apparatus and the object of our invention is to furnisha device which will pass a good coin to a check controlled machinewithout serious or objectionable mutilation but which will so mutilate aso-called slug, that is a disk of cardboard, paper, lead, or thin metal,that on its passage through the machine it will fail to actuate themechanism thereof.

This application is a division of our application for patent oncheck-operated apparatus, Serial Number 265,140, filed June 14, 1905.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this application, and inwhich similar letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout theseveral'views: Figures 1, 2 and 3, are side elevations showing differentpositions of our means for mutilating a sing, the case for carrying saidmeans being shown partly broken away to expose its interior: Fig. 4, afront elevation of Fig. 3, the front of the inclosing case being brokenaway; Fig. 5, to the left, a side, and to the right, a rear elevation oftrigger and knife for mutilating a slug; Fig. 6, to the left, a sideelevation, and to the right, a rear elevation, of trigger shown in Fig.5; Fig. 7, a perspective view of stops for limiting movement of knives.

In the drawings our slug mutilating means is shown applied to a threeslot machine, that is a machine adapted to be operatedby coins of threedifferent denominations; it will be understood, of course, that it isequally applicable to a machine having a greater or lesser number ofslots and coin carriers.

0 is the case of the machine, b coin carriers carried upon a shaft a towhich is secured an operating handle d. There are shown in the presentcase four sets of -carriers c and, by mechanism illustrated anddescribed in our application above referred to, the handle (I is adaptedeach time that it is operated to rotate the shaft a one-quarter turn.The normal position of the handle (1 and of the coin carriers b is shownin Fig. 1, one of the carriers being directly in line with the coinopening g in the case 0; each operative movement of the handle :1 movingone of the coin carriers from the coin opening 9 down past themutilating knives and bringing the next coin carrier into positionopposite the opening 9.

0 is a shaft or support upon which the trigger n and the knife 8 arepivotally carried, the upper part of the knife s being preferablyslotted out or bifurcated as shown in Fig. 5 to receive the trigger n.

If a good coin be dropped through slot 9 to one of the coin carriers band the carrier be rotated, the coin will first engage the trigger n andbeing hard will force this trigger outward causing its outer side toengage and lift a stop p from engagement with the knife 8 as shown inFig. 2. A further movement of the coin carrier will bring the coin intoengagement with the knife s, as shown in Fig. 3, but the stop p havingbeen moved away from the knife this latter yields and passes the coinwithout appreciably marking it.

The general arrangement of the stop p is shown in Fig. 7; it isfurnished with an arm 1 adapted to be engaged by the trigger p and witharms 2 adapted to engage the outer side of the knife s. \Vhen the arm 1is lifted by the trigger n the arms 2 are lifted away from the knife sand at the same time a stop 3, pivotally carried upon a rod 4, which iscarried by knife s, is, by a spring 5, moved under the stop p. When thecoin engages and forces out the lower end of the knife s the rod 4 ismoved outward with it and the top of the stop 3 is moved inward and awayfrom the stop p which is then free to drop by gravity, or by the aid ofspring 6 so as to again engage the knife s. 7 is a slotted keeperthrough which the stop 3 passes in order that its movements may beproperly guided.

.The apparatus shown in the drawings is adapted for three differentsizes of coins, hence there are three sets of knives and their parts,but notwithstanding this but one stop 3 and one stop 11 are required asthis latter stop extends from one side of the case a to the other and isfurnished with separate arms 1 and 2 for each set of knives andtriggers.

8 is a spring or springs, surrounding the shaft or support 0 whichcarries the knives and triggers, the lower ends of which bear againstrod 4, which is carried by the lower ends of knives s, and which serveto return the knives to their first position after the passage of a goodcoin.

If instead of a good coin a slug be passed to the coin carrier 1) andthe latter be turned by the handle d the slug will first come intocontact with the trigger n the face of which is knife edged. The slugbeing usually of a material softer than the genuine coin, paper orcardboard slugs are usually employed, it is cut or nicked by the face ofthe trigger which is held against the pressure of the slug by a suitablespring, for instance, by one leg of the spring 8 as shown in Fig. 4, theother leg of which returns the knife s to its first position after thepassage of a good coin as before described. As the trigger n is notoperated by the passage of the slug the stop p which engages the frontof the knife s is not ref leased and when the slug reaches the knife 8this latter is held rigidly by stop 10 and as the slug is forced past itit is mutilated in such a manner as to make it impossible for it toactuate the signal that is operated by the passage of a good coin, whichapparatus is not shown in this application but which is shown in myapplication of which this-is a division.

Of course we cannot in a device of this character guard against slugsmade of a hard material like iron,

- but the device will successfully mutilate the slugs ordinarily used tooperate machines of this nature which usually are made of cardboard,tin, thin lead or some other light material easily cut to shape by apenknife or scissors.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent:-

1. In a check controlled apparatus, in combination, a movable coin orrier, a trigger located adjacent said carrier and adapted to be engagedby an object carried by said coin carrier, a pivoted knife associatedwith said trigger, and a stop adapted to be controlled by said triggerto engage or disengage said knife.

2. In a check controlled apparatus, in combination, a rotatable coincarrier, a knife edged trigger located adjacent said carrier and adaptedto be engaged by an object carried by said coin carrier, a swinginglymounted knife associated with said trigger, and a movable stop adaptedto be operated by a movement of said trigger-to permit said knife toswing.

3. In a check controlled apparatus, in combination, a rotatable coincarrier, a swinging knife located adjacent said carrier, a shaft or studupon which said knife is carried, a pivoted stop located adjacent saidknife, and adapted in one position to engage and prevent a movement ofsaid knife, a trigger associated with said knife and pivoted on saidshaft or stud and adapted to be engaged by an object carried by saidcoin carrier, and a spring for holding said trigger against the object.carried by said coin carrier.

4. In a check controlled apparatus, in combination, a rotatable coincarrier, a pivoted knife located adjacent to said carrier and having theupper part thereof bifurcated, a pivoted trigger placed in thebifuracted part of said knife, and a stop located adjacent to the knifeand adapted to engage and prevent a movement of said knife untiloperated by said trigger.

5. In combination, the pivoted knife, the pivoted-trigger associatedtherewith, the stop adjacent to the knife and trigger adapted to engagesaid knife and to be operated by said trigger, and a common spring forholding said knife and trigger in their normal positions.

. EDWARD A. BEAUMONT, JR.

GEORGE W. GARMON.

Witnesses:

GEORGE W. SELTZER, CHARLES A. Ru'r'rna.

